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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 5 
From Day to Day. 
If no kindly thought or word 
We can give, some soul to bless; 
If our hands, from hour to hour. 
Do no deeds of gentleness: 
If to lone and weary ones 
We no comfort will impart— 
Tho’ ’tis Summer in the sky. 
Yet ’tis Winter in the heart! 
If we strive to lift the gloom 
From a dark and burdened life; 
If we seek to lull the storm 
Of our fallen brother’s strife: 
If we bid all hate and scorn 
Prom the spirit to depart— 
Tho ’tis Winter in the sky, 
Yet ’tis Summer in the heart! 
—The Golden Penny. 
* 
One of our friends blames a sudden 
and severe attack of gout in one toe to 
the persistent use of orange phosphate 
and other acid drinks during the Sum¬ 
mer. She got rid of the trouble by care¬ 
ful dieting, but says that she still feels 
the need of avoiding acid foods. She 
quoted the case of one fi’iend who cannot 
eat oranges persistently without experi¬ 
encing rheumatic twinges. 
« 
Canada certainly sets a good example 
for this side of the line in the sanctity 
of the marriage relation. According to 
recent statistics, during the past 32 years 
only 271 divorces have been granted 
throughout the entire Dominion. In 
Prince Edward Island, with a population 
of 100,000, there has not been one di¬ 
vorce in 30 years. Evidently the Cana¬ 
dian enters upon marriage as a perman¬ 
ent relation, not a mere civil contract lo 
be dissolved at the caprice of those en¬ 
tering upon it. 
* 
We recently ate of a very prettily- 
served Winter salad, which gave an idea 
to be used in several forms. Turnip 
cups were formed by peeling small white 
turnips and scooping them out into cup 
form, then boiling in salted water. 
These were placed upon a bed of water 
cress, and filled with potato salad, to 
which boiled beets, cut into small strips, 
may be added for a garnish. Plain 
French dressing was served with it. 
Macedoine salad, which consists of va¬ 
rious cold boiled vegetables, such as 
beets, carrots, peas, string beans and 
asparagus, cut up and served with may¬ 
onnaise, may be put in the turnip cups 
ve.y suitably. 
* 
The Youth’s Companion tells of a man 
who, on his return from a two-days’ 
visit to his brother, thus harrowed his 
wife’s feelings by describing a family 
misadventure: 
“It was at the dinner-table last night,’’ 
said Mr. Marvin, solemnly, “that this oc¬ 
curred. We were all quietly eating, when 
suddenly little Mary gave a cry of dis¬ 
tress, and closed her eyes. Almost at the 
same instant my sister-in-law pressed her 
hand to her forehead, and tears streamed 
down her face. As I gazed at her in alarm 
my brother Edward threw up his arms 
with an exclamation of intense and sudden 
pain, and then buried his face, over which 
a spasm was passing, in his napkin.” 
“Poisoned!” gasped Mrs. Marvin, with 
hysterical symptoms. 
“No, my dear,” said Mr. Marvin, with 
maddening calmness, “it was horseradish.” 
* 
Theke is an old woman in one of tue 
New York market districts who is known 
as “the quince woman.” She sells quince 
in all sorts of forms, and is said to know 
more about this fruit thap anyone else 
about the markets. She sells raw 
quinces, quince preserves, quince butter, 
quince jelly, quince jam, and quince 
pasta, the latter being a specialty. It is 
made by boiling down quince pulp with 
sugar until, upon cooling, it becomes a 
solid like damson cheese, and the old 
“quince woman” has standing orders for 
this, from a number of customers. She 
has the knack of altering the color of 
her wares by differences in cooking, and 
makes jelly varying from a pale deli¬ 
cate pink to deep red. Many city dwel¬ 
lers are glad to buy these homemade 
quince preparations, as it is quite trou¬ 
blesome to prepare the fruit. 
* 
We have given up New Year’s resolu¬ 
tions—we keep on making—and breaking 
3666 JBloiue WaiHt. 
39 to 40 in bust. 
—good resolutions 12 months in the year 
—but if we began 1901 with the idea of 
some special and extra determination, 
it would be against needless worry. We 
read recently of a woman who, on being 
reproached for this habit, asserted that 
no one need tell her that worry didn’t 
do any good, because the things she wor¬ 
ried about never happened. That view 
of the utility of worriment never struck 
us before. The strongest argument 
against worry is its deteriorating effect 
upon mind, character and disposition. A 
great and crushing sorrow, nobly borne, 
often elevates and purifies a common¬ 
place character, but endless worry— 
“fretchedness,” as old-country people 
say—because it rains, or because it 
doesn’t, or because the cake is “sad,” oi 
the boys track mud into the house, 
makes the worrier a misery to herself 
and to others, and, if bodily Ills be addeu 
to such a disposition, there is every re¬ 
quisite for lingering illness of a nervous 
type. Resolute cheerfulness and a de¬ 
termination to see the bright side are 
the foundation of all personal happi¬ 
ness; it is always possible to get some 
joy out of life if one puts joy into it. 
The Rural Patterns. 
An easy and comfortable blouse, more 
dressy in effect than an ordinary shirt 
waist, is shown in No. 3666. The model 
is made of Venetian flannel in hunter’s 
green, with vest and stock of white 
satin-faced broadcloth, machine stitched 
and revers of velvet matching the fian- 
nel. Down each front, below the revers, 
are small buttonholes through which 
the gold chain links are slipped that 
hold the fronts in place. Countless com¬ 
binations and a variety of materials can 
be substituted, however, and tiny silk 
cord and gold buttons can take the place 
of the links if desired, or these can be 
entirely omitted and the fronts hooked 
invisibly into place. Henrietta, plain 
and embroidered cashmere, drap d’gte, 
French flannel and taffeta are all suit¬ 
able and the color of both waist and vest 
can be changed to anything the wearer 
may prefer. The foundation for the 
blouse is a fitted lining with single darts 
and which closes at the center front. 
On it are arranged the fronts, vest and 
back. The fronts are smooth and with¬ 
out fullness at the shoulders, and are 
drawn in at the waist line. The vest 
is attached permanently to the right side 
of the lining and hooks over on to the 
left beneath the left front. The stock 
collar is joined to the vest and closes 
invisibly at the center back. The 
bishop sleeves are not over full, and are 
finished at the wrists with straight cuffs. 
To make this blouse for a woman of me¬ 
dium size 2% yards of material 21 inches 
wide, three yards 27 inches wide, or 1% 
yard 44 inches wide, will be required, 
with % yard 50 inches wide, or % yard 
21 inches wide, for vest and stock col¬ 
lar. The pattern No. 3666 is cut in sizes 
for a 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40-inch bust mea- ’ 
sure, price 10 cents from this office. 
The Russian blouse also illustrated is 
now a very fashionable shape. Th-j 
model is made from the new vicuna 
waist cloth in Russian blue with piping 
of black taffeta, stitching in black silk, 
and cut steel buttons, but fiannel, cash- 
mere, taffeta and all the familiar waist 
materials are equally appropriate. As 
shown the waist is cut pointed edge, that 
renders it peculiarly smart, but the 
points can be omitted and the edge left 
plain, as shown in the small cut, if de¬ 
sired. The foundation for the waist is 
a fitted lining with single darts in fronts 
and center seam in back only. The 
back proper is seamless, fits smoothly 
across the shoulders, the slight fullness 
being drawn down at the waist line. The 
fronts are simply gathered in slight full¬ 
ness at the neck and gathered in at the 
waist, where they blouse slightly over 
the stylishly curved belt. I'he sleeves 
are in bishop style with pointed cuff 
bands that hook over invisibly. The 
neck is finished with high stock collar 
3680 Russian Waist. 
32 to 40 in. bust. 
having a pointed end. To cut this waist 
for a woman of medium size 3% yards 
of material 21 inches wide, three yards 
27 inches wide, or two yards 44 inches 
wide, will be required. The pattern No. 
3680 is cut in sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 38 
and 40-inch bust measure; price 10 cents 
from this office. 
Pioneer Experiences; Retro¬ 
spection. 
The pioneers of 50 and 60 years ago, 
those who are now living, seem to find 
great pleasure in recalling the past. The 
work of these enduring spirits opened 
the way for churches, schools and other 
desirable and important helps to society. 
In these changes many things have been 
gained, and something lost, both in the 
social and material world. As acces¬ 
sible markets have been opened near 
their homes, some of the open-handed 
generosity of the old time has been 
changed to a more careful attention to 
the yearly revenue; the great army of 
tramps, the recent annoyance of farm 
life, has taught the people to discrimi¬ 
nate in their gifts, a useful lesson to 
learn, too. Some have indulged in a 
morbid desire to own all the lands ad¬ 
joining them. The foot peddler who car¬ 
ried his stock tied up in a couple of ban¬ 
danna handkerchiefs, is no longer enter¬ 
tained free of cost over night, that the 
family might look over his supply of 
needles, pins and thread and other 
* necessaries, buying carefully of him 
what they needed. His successor, who 
now carries a pack on his back nearly 
as large as himself, has been almost dis¬ 
placed by local merchants in the near¬ 
est town. The free, off-hand speech of 
casual acquaintances who "aw in each 
other warm friends has changed to more 
conventional greetings. 
Cultivation has done much to improve 
the face of the country, as well as to 
increase the fortunes of the tillers of the 
soil. The rolling prairie and adjacent 
woodland is as beautiful as ever to the 
practical eye, perhaps more so, but the 
lovely wild fiowers have disappeared. 
The cattle who have grazed over the 
pastures, together with the plow and 
drag, have left hardly a vestige of the 
flowers which once seemed to carpet the 
fields. The Painted-cup, or Squaw pink, 
the dainty blue Fringed gentian, the 
Cardinal flower, the harebell, more cor¬ 
rectly named by the children Indian’s 
hair; of these scarce anything remains 
but a sweet memory, and the lady’s slip¬ 
per and ironweed have given place to 
the weeds of scientific farming, such a^ 
burdocks, purslane, pigweeds and other 
unwelcome comers, against which lue 
present owners have declared war; and 
fields of corn, oats, Timothy and clover 
now challenge the admiration of all lov¬ 
ers of the useful and beautiful. 
_AUNT RACHEL. 
A Substitute for Grape Juice. —To 
those readers who cannot easily procure 
grapes I would suggest that they try 
crab apples or any other sour fruit to 
make a palatable Summer drink. Pre¬ 
pare the same as unfermented grape 
juice, after first removing blow, seeds 
and stem. Lemon may be added if de¬ 
sired. One lemon will season four gal¬ 
lons of juice. I cook the lemon with 
fruit before squeezing out the juice. The 
plain apple is very nice, and much un¬ 
like the common cider in flavor. 
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. Cocoa 
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High Quality, Economy and Delicious Taste. 
Sold at all grocery stores—order it next time. 
